Children's Book - Sun Dance

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Old! A children's book illustration from last year. This is the last page of my 10-pages picture book. I had to come up with a short, simple (and heartwarming and educational and all that sweet stuff) but effective plot, write down the text in rhymes (), draw the whole storyboard and complete two (make it almost-three, as one had to be a double splash page) illustrations. This was hard beyond my expectations!
First off, I'm not too familiar with stylization, especially the cutesy type. Then, the hardest thing in general was to come up with something a kid would be fascinated with, both on the writing part and on the visual aspect. I'm afraid thinking like a kid is not so easy anymore. I was looking for something not too down-on-earth, with some powerful fantasy elements that don't really need to be explained. Potentially freaky

The ending result was a story about a vain raven that snatches away the sun light every morning to keep his plumage gorgeous. Then his feathers start to turn grey and dull and his usual sunbaths only seem to make it worse...
It's a story about how learning to share over being greedy will make life more “colorful”. It is also meant to explain how color works in physics and what the color black really is.
… I'm embarrassed c: